No doorman? No problem! Meet the futuristic 'lobby locker' which will have your clothes laundered, sign for your packages... and even collect your groceries

Lockers aren't just for school kids and gym bunnies anymore - and valets aren't just for the super-rich.

One New York-based company has combined the two concepts and come up with a new service for apartment dwellers. One which can take care of your laundry, your clutter, your mail, even your groceries for you, all without stepping foot outside your building, or interacting with a human.

Clean Cube installs high-tech lockers or 'cabinets' into the lobbies of doorman-less apartment buildings. In these, tenants can deposit clothes for laundering, or items for seasonal storage, for example, for the Clean Cube team to collect, service and return.

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Digital valet: Clean Cube cabinets are currently being installed in New York apartment lobbies, enabling tenants to drop off laundry, which employees collect, service, and return - as well as handling other chores

Tenants create accounts online and access the Clean Cube cabinets using a passcode on the touch screens.

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As soon as they've placed their dirty laundry in the cabinet, the door automatically locks behind them, and the Clean Cube team are alerted to whisk it off to its dedicated laundry and dry cleaning facility.

Laundry and dry cleaning is returned within 24 or 48 hours and seasonal storage items are returned whenever requested.

Laundry is priced the same as local facilities where you'd have to drop them off yourself - $1.15 per pound - and dry cleaning varies from $5 for a shirt to $45 for delicate leather items. Items for Goodwill are taken off your hands for free.

To and fro: Tenants can leave items for seasonal storage or goodwill, which the Clean Cube team collect and disperse, as well as have packages - and soon groceries - delivered without needing to sign for them

One-two-three: Laundry is returned within 24 or 48 hours and seasonal storage items are returned whenever requested, both for the same price as local facilities where you'd have to drop them off yourself

Tenants can also get packages delivered to their designated Clean Cube cabinet for $3, to save them having to be present to sign for them, and in the absence of a doorman.

And soon, groceries can be delivered in the same way: sitting and waiting for tenants when they get home from work.

Founder Arthur Shmulevsky, an ex-Wall Street banker, tells MailOnline it was his own, ever-growing pile of dirty laundry that sparked the idea for Clean Cube.

'I would leave my Manhattan apartment in the morning before my local dry-cleaners opened and get home after they closed,' he says, adding that he often noticed colleagues dragging their laundry into the office for the same reason.

'And I would have to get packages delivered at work, to lug home with me at the end of the day.

'I realized that app-based services, like FlyCleaners, still didn't solve the problem of "the last mile" because you have to be home to receive your laundry, and that's when the idea for Clean Cube was born.'

Future-forward lockers: Tenants create accounts online and access the Clean Cube cabinets using a passcode on the touch screens. Once items are dropped, the door automatically locks behind them

Twenty-seven New York buildings have so far installed Clean Cube cabinets into their lobbies, with demand for more skyrocketing, and with London next on the launch list.

'Thirty years ago, cars had stick shifts and a few bells and whistles, and now they are basically computers on wheels,' Mr Shmulevsky remarks. 'We want to do the same with apartment lobbies.

'I can't see much of a reason why we won't all be living in Clean Cube buildings one day.'